slave trade
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3.6
- noun
- /sleɪv treɪd/
- NSFW
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trata de esclavos
- Estimates for the Trans-Saharan slave trade, spanning a period of nearly 2000 years, go as high as 9 million.
- the Atlantic slave trade
- the trans-Atlantic slave trade
- the African slave trade
One was the slave trade in the Atlantic and in the China trade.
- One was the slave trade in the Atlantic and in the China trade.
- Your challenge is end the global slave trade.
- And I personally don't think there should be reparations for the slave trade because it was so long ago.
- Britain was among the first states in the history of the world to abolish the slave trade and then to abolish slavery.
- In India, the trade was really about commodities and this slave trade ended in the loss of millions of lives.
- Although I think one shouldn't downplay the the horrors of the slave trade across Africa and when when Europeans like David Livingstone witnessed it was just horrible.
- So, So my point, my point is not in any way to at all diminish what the European slave trade was or what the transatlantic slave trade was.
- And in the French collective consciousness, slave trade is something far far, far.
- And there was it was giving a message about the slave trade and stuff like that.
- Everybody gets rich, the slave trade.
- But part of that was because they couldn't so easily replace them with someone from, you know, the African slave trade.
Examples
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Britain was among the first states in the history of the world to abolish the slave trade and then to abolish slavery.
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The transatlantic slave trade forcibly transported millions of Africans to the Americas.
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I have to ask you, do you feel this is a slave trade of a different kind?
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One was the slave trade in the Atlantic and in the China trade.
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The end of the transatlantic slave trade for example.
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I read your article in The Times this morning about the slave trade in the Americas.
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But as the foreign slave trade was cut off, the domestic American slave trade absolutely boomed.
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In the centuries following the Renaissance, the African slave trade was mainly led by Portugal and Spain.
Academic text (2008) -
Spain and England signed a treaty in 1817, expanded in 1835, making the slave trade illegal.
Academic text (2017) -
To engage in the slave trade is to look upon the utmost of grotesque horrors.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
The buying, selling, and moving of people to be forced to work, especially Africans taken to the Americas
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'slave' denotes people who are owned and 'trade' denotes buying and selling, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer 'the buying and selling (and related transport) of slaves'. This noun+noun compound follows a common cross-linguistic pattern for types of trade, making it transparent to learners.
Etymology
Slave trade comes from the real business described by its parts, slave and trade: buying, selling and moving people as slaves. People taken from Africa were put on ships and sold in markets in the Americas, so the phrase means 'the buying and selling of people'.